The moment I wake up it feels like Portland. Sunlight filters through the mini-blinds and my fingers uncurl from deep sleep just enough to open the blinds. Portland skies: a mixture of perfect [...]
Britt says “You’ll probably fall in love like six times while you’re over there. Do ya’ thank you could just forget about men for a few weeks?” I tell her that would be nice and since her husband [...]
I scuffle through a sea of sleep-deprived legs, Samsonite rollers, and Barbie doll day packs. The sound is aquifer, awkward, disillusioned and drugged. “Yes, ma’m, excuse me please, [...]
I go to Vic’s house near BigCity, NC to avoid having to leave the Black Mountains at 4:00am in order to catch my early flight. The extra hour of sleep will come in handy once I arrive in [...]
I go to the Cove Crawl at the old boarding school. School is done, my teaching friends have their lives back, and the rain gods have blessed us a clear enough night for raucous outdoor activities [...]
I go to the river for a night swim. Crossing the gravel road on foot, my sandals flopping softly against my heels like the sound of cotton t-shirts waving on the clotheslines, I can hear the [...]
I sit in a middle school auditorium to watch the year-end Montessori performance of The Wizard of Oz. The lion wanted courage (“Roar!”), the tin man wanted a heart (“Is it a kind heart?), the [...]
